John Phillimore collection catalogs

1930s

John Philliraore (1940) was the motoring correspondent for the London Times and an authority on the history of transportation. During the 1930s Phillimore built a large collection of historical items concerning railroads in great Britain. In 1943 his collection of books, pamphlets, letters, printed ephemera, and artifacts was broken up and sold at auction by Sothby and Company.

This collection is one of the lots sold at the auction. It is the handwritten catalog of the books, pamphlets, time tables, passes, maps, illustrations, artifacts, and other materials that comprised Phillimore's railroad collection. Some of the lists give summaries of the original documents or brief histories of the railroads. The catalogs contain approximately 1, 200 pages.